1.6 Organ Systems

Question 1

What must happen to the food you eat?

Answer 1

It must be changed from insoluble molecules into soluble molecules

Question 2

What happens to soluble molecules?

Answer 2

They are absorbed in to the blood

Question 3

What process is the digestive system responsible for?

Answer 3

Turning insoluble molecules into soluble molecules

Question 4

What is the digestive system?

Answer 4

A muscular tube

Question 5

What does the digestive system consist of? (5 things)

Answer 5

Glands, stomach, liver, small intestine, large intestine

Question 6

What do glands do?

Answer 6

Glands include the pancreas and salivary glads, they produce digestive juices

Question 7

What happens in the stomach?

Answer 7

Digestion

Question 8

What happens in the liver?

Answer 8

Bile is produced

Question 9

What happens in the small intestine?

Answer 9

Soluble food is absorbed (digestion)

Question 10

What happens in the large intestine?

Answer 10

Water is absorbed from the undigested food, producing faeces